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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-23
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.

BEST.-The relatives, friends and acquaint-
ance of Mr.. GEORGE N. BEST and DR.. \. O.
Best and family. are invited TO attend the flu
neral of the former from the residence of the
latter, White Bluff Road, THIS MORNING at 10
o'clock.
RAINES -The friends and acquaintance of
Mr. and Mr.. JAMES R. RAiNEs and W, c Lyon
and family, are respectfully invited to attend
the funeral of the former from his residence
No. 20 Broughton street, THIS AFTERNOON at
$50 O'Clock.
BARRETT.-The friends and relatives of Mr..
and Mrs: Michael Barrett, and family, are re-
spectfllly invited to attend the funeral of their
infant son FRANCIS from No. ID Steward St., at
10 o'clock THIS MORNING.
TALBIRD.-The relatives, friends and ac-
quaintance of Mrs. G. A. TALBIRD are respect
fully invited to attend her funeral from her late
residence, 81 Tatnau, corner OF Jones street,
THIS AFTERNOON at $3.50 o'clock.
GlLLlAND.- friends and relatives of Mrs.
Mary Ann Gilliand and of Maurice j. Murphy
and family, are respectfully invited to attend
the funeral of Mrs. MARY ANN GILIIAND from
the residence of NJ. J. Murphy, SO jefferson ST.,
at O'Clock THIS MORNING.
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A Human Tiger,

From the Tallahassee LFia.l TdlIdbdsSean.
A most brutal murder was committed last
Saturday afternoon in our county Jail by
one of the prisoners, Alex Jones (colOreD,
who was there in Jail for murder, he having
shot and killed a 14-year-old boy about a
rabbit, in the northern portion of this
county, last January. The county Jail has
long been used as a city calaboose, and the
victim of Saturdays murder was Lovely
Hicks, an old colored man, who was
picked up on the streets drunk and put
in jail. Shortly after the jailer left the
prisoners the drunken man managed to in
cur the displeasure of the said Alex. Jones,
who pounced upon him like an Infatuated
Bengal tiger and before the other prisoners
could pull him off he had inflicted injuries
from which the old man died Monday night,
having lain perfectly insensible from the
time of the injury until death relieved him.
An inquest was held on the body az the Jail
yesterday morning and post norton ex-
animation by DR.. Gwynn developed contu-
sion of the brain, besides fatal internal in
juries about the breast and stomach.
Other prisoners i'll the Jail
testified that Jones became enraged at
Hicks for making a noise and got into
quarrel with him, jumped ON him, caught
him 10y the shoulders and pounded his head
against the floor until he became insensibIe,
and came down with his knee on the breast
blood gushed out of his mouth and nose.
Jones is a young man about 20 years of age,
with most powerful muscular development.
He will weigh about POO pounds, and looks
to be as strong as a mule. He is a full
blooded African, has a low Sloping forehead
and a full development of all the animal
at the expense of his mental faculties,
though be is by no means lunatic nor an
idiot. We interviewed him in the Jail yes
terday morning, He evinced not the slight
est concern at having killed his fellow man,
and was ready and willing to talk on the
subject. He said that Hicks kept crawling
up to him and trying to catch him by the
leg, but he says he did not intend to kill him.
He gave us full account of his killing the
boy last winter. He said that he was out
hunting and had killed a rabbit when
the boy came up and claimed the game, and
ATTEMPTED TO take it, Il kept telnng him."
ne said, eff yer doan let dis rabbit er lone
I'll kill yer, boy' but he kept right ON
spatching at de rabbit; den | knock him
down an step back an shot him jes' like
tell him." After killing the boy the muir
derer ran away and eluded arrest until some
time in March. when he was captured and
put in Jail He is evidently bad Elex, and
if he gets his just deserts he will hang
higher than Hannah.
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Fools Keep the Games Going.
From the Chicago Herald.

One night last week | was showing friend
from abroad some of the sights of the town
after dark, and, being in search of novel
ties, went into Hankins' gambling house at
134 Clark street. 1t is queer place and my
friend who had never before seen anything
of the kind, was much astonished.
why" said he, Il had heard that gam
bling was suppressed under your new
Mayor
But what struck my friend most was not
the large number of players, nor their pow
erty-stricken appearance, but the regularity
with which that handsome, though sinister
individual George Hankins himself, made
a tour of the cash drawer and the rolls Of
wealth which he unfailingly found therein.
About once an hour said habitue of
the place, "Hanllins makes the ralie-in
rounds. In the till of every game he inva-
ri4bly finds a roll--sOmetimes large one
sometimes a small one. | have spent a good
many days and nights in here, and on only
two occasions did | see any necessity arise
for Hanllins putting money back into a box
TO keep the game going, and then he took
the stuff from one box, where the game was
running strong in favor of the house, and
put it into the other, where the players Were
having a streak of luck. One of the queer
est things about this business is the unfail-
ing SteadinesS with which the stacks of bills
accumulate i'll the tills of the gaming tables.
1t is just like a well-thc stuff appearing to
pour in as fast as n healthy man can take it
out. Here and there player wins big stacks
of checks, casheS i'll and quits. But the
money TO pay them or doesn't come from
the house but from the other players"
What queer business to be sure, added
my friend; steady receipts from unknown
customers, no books or records to be kept,
no value given in retulm-just crowd of
poor chaps coming in here, emptying their
pockets and walking out again, disconso-
lately. What becomes of all this money"
"a good deal of it goes into race horses
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ACIDS PART IN POLITICS.
THE TALLY-SHEET CROOKS ON
TRIAL AT INDIANAPOLIS.

A Man Who Turned States Evidence
Tells How the Frauds Were Perpe-
trated-The Names of Prominent
Partisans Implicated in the Work
Told in Court.
INDIANA. OILS. July 22-The Federal
Court room was crowded to-day by people
anxious to listen to tho testimony in the
tally sheet cases. The general tendency of
the testimony corrObOrated to some extent
the evidence given yesterday by Perkins,
the man who turned States evidence. Dur
ing the day an expert chemist was called He
inspected the mutilated tally sheets and
gave it as his opinion that figures had been
erased by means of acids. He explained
the method by which this could be DONE
and gave a practical illustration in the
presence of the court and jury. Perkins
testified that an agreement was entered into
by himself, Simon Coy and others to forge
tally sheets i'll case any of the Democratic
candidates were lacking votes.
MANUFACTURING VOTES.
On the morning the canvassing board
met, he was told by Coy, that the
Criminal Judge was behind, and that
more votes were needed. He secured the
tally sheet from Inspector Hisey, and went
TO room with Coy in the east end of the
county building. He Perkins erased the
vote for the Judge and subtracted
sixteen votes from Irwin, Republican and
gave them to Ayers, the Democratic candi-
date. A few minutes later Stephen Mat
tier came in and his tally sheet was changed
for the Criminal Judge twenty votes.
Other sheets were brought to him but he re
fused TO change them,
DOCTORED STILL FURTER.
That evening" while the board was still in
session, he met a number of cOnsprators at
the Grand Hotel. They We're Stephen Mat
tier, Smith Meyers, Samuel Beck, Daniel
Burton. John Reardon and other prominent
Democratic politicians. Reardon was sent
out for bottle of ink from the parties who
furnished the fluid for the election board. DIR.
c. n, Metcaf, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, went to his
office and got some acid. The acid was APP
piled TO the figures and Reardon wrote m
new figures raising the Democratic vote
fifty. The witness was put through a very
rigid cross-examination, lasting all the
afternoon, but did not waver from his orig
inal statement.
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TAKING FARMERS.
a Talk With Commissioner Henderson
on Fees for Inspecting.
Fron, the atlanta (Ga) Journal.

From the Atlanta GA Journal.
Glow much do the farmers pay the State
for inspecting the fertilizers which they
use?" inquired Journal man of Commits
sioner Henderson yesterday
"Eighty-three thousand and thirty-hve
dollars"
"And how much is that sum in excess of
the cost of inspectionW
Sixty thousand one hundred ana
seven dollars and thirty-tive cents.
"Then the farmer pays the State that
large special tax without other return IMAM
S14, 92S worth of inspections"
Not exactly The State supports the
agricultural department for the farmers
benefit. That costs at present SI4,@OO.
This department and the inspections are the
two benefits which the farmer gets from
the State. Together they cost SO, Us.
Take that sum from the gross amount paid
by the farmer and you have 50, 6OI as the
special tax on farmers for which they get
no special return. This surplus goes TO the
support of public schools, and you and and
all men of all classes can get at least as
much advantage from it as the farming
class, which unassisted pays it,"
do you think this large surplus is dis
posed of properly!"
Indeed | do not | think it should be
set apart for the benefit of the class from
whose pocket it comes"
In what way!'
sit ought to be appropriated to charging
and extending the usefulness of the agricul-
tural department. As it is, we are wofully
handicapped. Weare pinched and cramped
until we have scarcely breathing room.
Georgia is wanting i'll almost every facility
for the enlightenment and encouragement
of the farmer. Experimental farms
are needed. Exhibits at. important fairs
ought to be provided to call attention
to the strong points of Georgia agriculture.
We were hardly able to beg enough mate
rial to make a creditable display at our own
home exposition here in 1881. North and
South Carolina, in which States the sur
plus from inspection of fertilizers is devoted
to the States agricultural interests, beat us
in some departments out of our boots here
on our own ground. We are so pinched for
lack of money that we could do nothing,
Then we need more printing. Any intOr-
nation which we may accumulate cannot
now be distributed widely enough to benefit
any considerable number Our reports
ought TO go to every farmer in the State,
whereas we now reach only few dozen in
each county-in all only 1000 copies are
sent out. Information should be supplied
to emigrants, showing the resources Of the
State and its various advantages as place
to settle We need about ten times as many
seeds to distribute as we now handle. There
are many ways in which we could be of inn
menSe usefulness to the class that pays this
money, if the money were only given us TO
return to them in benefits
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COOK COUNTY'S CROOKS.
rhe Doodle Informer Tells How IL
SWag was Divided.

fhe Doodle Informer Tells How the
Swag was Divided.
CHICAGO, July 23-In the trial of the
poodle county officials to-day the first wit
ness was an indicted commissioner,
lynn, who turned States evidence, and
gave evidence startling, direct and com
orehensive. He told how the defendant
Commissioners held a secret meeting in the
rooms of the janitOr of the Criminal Court,
socated in the basement of the very build
ng where the trial is being held. The chair
men of the various committees, it was
decided at the meeting, should no longer lay
themselves open by accepting and dividing
money paid by firms whose contracts had
been put through the board, but a regular
Collector should be appointed. 1t was upon
motion of the witness that Mctiarigle was
selected as Collector. Money was secured
by the Commissioners from every contract,
about $500 or 81 900 piece to each man for
large contracts and regular percentage for
small ones On one occasion Commissioner
Wasserman demanded half of the 81 200
that the witness had obtained for himself
outside of the pool. A quarrel ensued, but
the witness did not divide, believing that
Wasserman had received enough Similar
evidence was given by Lynn against nearly
all the other commissioners. His cross
examination elected nothing significant,
ave that he was a church member while
engaged i'll the conspiracy. Lynn is a tall,
gaunt-looking man. He gave his testimony
in a cool manner, and did not seem to
shrink from the whitening glances directed
20 him by his twelve old colleagues
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FORMATION OF A WHISKY TRUST.
The Gigantic Scheme to Include All
Distillers West Of the Ohio
L III.


From the Chicago Tribune.
A scheme of the greatest Importance to
distillers and liquor men generally is the
formation of trust like the Cotton-Seed
Oil Trust or Standard Oil Company by a
consolidation of all the distilleries west
of the Ohio river Representatives
Of ten of the leading distilleries
met at the Grand Pacific Yesterday.
They are G.. X. Duckworth, William n.
Hobart, Cincinnati; Martin Kingman, John
II. Francis, James NJ. Rice, William Ne
Lean, Jacob Woolmer. j. =. Grc,nhut.
George j. Gibson and II. Schwabacler, Of
Peoria; w. f. Corning, Cleveland; l.. II.
Green, of Cincinnati, and representatives
OF the Chicago, Phoenix, and Empire dis
tilleries of this city.
The plan has been Matching since the
Western Export Association died and is
now said 70 be SO fully perfected TINT every
diStillcry west OF the Ohio river will belong
10 it, and il win be in full operation inside
of a month. 4 gentleman fully Conversant
with the plan said It was to be called the
Western Distillers' and Cattle Feeders
Trust. The stock is to DO appor-
toned among the members on the
basis of the value of their plant instead
OF upon the capacity. which was the
rock upon which the Export Association
touuCrred. Stock is 10 be issued for about
four times the value of the combined plants
which is estimated at about Sl0.OOOOGO, and
it is TO be listed upon the Chicago and Now
York Stock Exchanges 4 board of nine
trustees is 10 have absolute control of the
production. The plants are 10 be transferred
outright to the trustses, AID a rental of
9 per cent. is to be paid for the land
for term of years It is expected that
under this system the productions can be
better controlled, the diStillcreS which tuc
trustees elect 70 run being run at
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-23
SEEN ON THE HOUSE TOPS.
Queer Features of Roof Life in Crowd
ed Parts ofNew York.

ed Parts ofNew York.
From the editorial rooms of the Mail and
Cypress the roofs of hundreds of houses
may be seen spreading on all sides, some
high others low Amid the wilderness of
smoking chimneys, tapping clothes hung
out to dry, and interviewer telegraph wires
is enough rubbish to fill an acre of swamp
land. Old kettles, broken bottles bricks,
shoes, boots, tomato cans and gar
bage make up the conglomer-
ate heap. The low-roofed houses
seem to be the dumping ground for the ten
ants of higher buildings. In the tenement
house districts the condition of things is
much worse, for the people habitually throw
the ashes and garbage out OF their high
windows upon the roofs of the adjoining
simple country folk to toss their
rubbish over a neighbours fence has
come TO be practice with the city
people also The countryman, how
ever, has one advantage over his city
brother; he can remedy the injury done
him by tossing the rubbish back, whereas
this is hardly practicable in the city. The
only recourse left the injured citizen is to
shovel it Off into the street, or upon the
Roof life in New York is curious
and instructive study. Few know
how many thousands of people do their
daily work on the housetops, uuobserved
by passerS in the streets From the
Mail and Express windows at least l00men
and women may be seen ON ncighboring
houses busy with thor various occupations
On one roof several women are at their
washing tubs, while others are hanging up
clothes 10 dry. On hundreds Of roofs long
lines of clothes are tapping in the wind.
The washing Of this city is done upon the
housctops. Besides the washerwomon,
scores Of teIegraphic hnemea arc monding
their wires
At nighttime they swarm with human
beings. On the East Side, where there are
few on no public parks, the roofs serve as
Fairgrounds for the poor, Workingmen
gather in groups 90 smoke their pipes, or
play dominOeS and checkers. Women sit
together, chatting, while their children run
about IN play or sprawl mt their mothers
knees. Every feature of park life at night
may be seen excepting the green trees aud
the fountains. On some housetops little
gardens have been carefully cultivated
Some of them have gravel paths between
the hower-beds, where the people walk in
the evening.
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Proposals for Sewers and CuIyets.
OFFICE OF THE CITY SURVEYOR,

OFTlCE OF THE ClrY SURVEYOR,
SAVANNAH, GA, July 18th, 1887 {
PROPOSALS will be received until WEDNES-
Il DAY NIGHT, July 9th, at o'clock,
directed TO Mr.. F. e. Rebarer, Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah, for furnishing mater
ials and building three hundred and sixty-one
feet of forty-twO inch sewer, seventy-fve feet
of thirty inch sewer, fOrty-one feet of
sixty inch half round culvert, together with
sundry catch-basns and bulkheads as may be
required. The said sewers, culverts, bulkheads
and catch-basins to be built on the Waters Road
near the property of Mr.. John Schwarz
Plans and specifications may be seen at the
office of the City Surveyor
The city reserves the right to reject any or all
bids.
All bids must be signed by two suretes before
a Notary, for the faithful performance of the
work. j. DEBRUYN KOPS, c. f.,
Acting CITY SURVEYOR
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It Might Have Been Worse.
From The Detroit Free Pres,


"Here, you boys" he called To half-a-dozen
negro whltewasherS as he came out of the
city vegetable market with watermelon in his
arms.
The men gathered around him Immediately
and he continued:
Take this melon as a present from me and
retire to some shady spot TO discuss it, As YOU
devour It remember that honesty and industry
are certain to be rewarded"
II was handed to she old patriarch of the clan
and the crowd retired TO an alley Off Bates
street with fond anticipations. When the knife
was used the melon turned out 10 be as green as
cucumber and one of the disappointed men
asked:
Reckon dat white man knowed its"
"Sah!' replied the patriarch as he held I'M
the plug to view. dis proves dat he knowed
Il all the time. When he spoke about industry
] 'spected he had dOsed de melon wild 1alap
When he got along 10 honesty reckoncd he had
loaded Il wild dynamite Ii turns ont dat he
only picked out dc greenest one he could find
an we will now thank de Lawd and pitch in. -"
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PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals for CuIyerts and bitches.
OFFICE OF THE CITY SURVEYOR,
Ill

VFFIOf OF THE OIIf t0IhN tYOR,
SAVANNAH, GA, July 18th, 1887.
PROPOSALS will be received until WEDNES-
Il DAY NIGHT July 9Th, at 8 o'clock
directed to Mr.. f. E. Rebarer Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah, for the furnishing of
materials and building forty-one feet of forty
eight inch half round culvert, and forty-one feet
of thirty six inch culvert, together with such
bulkheads and catch basins as may be required.
Also, for the digging of three hundred and
sixty-one feet of ditch, two and one-half feet
wide at the bottom, seven feet wide at the top
and five feet deep; and Also seventy-five feet Of
ditch, two feet wide at the bottom, five feet wide
at the top and four feet deep.
Plans and specifications may be seen at the
office of the City Surveyor.
The city reserves the right to reject any or all
bids
All bids must be signed by two sureties, before
Notary, for the faithful performance of the
work. j. DEBRUYN KOPS, c. E.,
Acting CitX SURVEYOR.
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Rough on Dirt"

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DIR. HENRY S COLDING,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.

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NOTICE TO TAILORs.

CITY OF SAVANNAH,
OFFICE CLERK OF COUNCIL
July 18th, 1887.
Bids will be received at the office of the Clerk
of Council until II o'clock NJ. MONDAY, 25th
inst, for furnishing the police force with Win
ter Uniforms in accordance with specifications
to be seen at this Office The city reserves the
right to reject any or all bids. By order of the
COMMITTEE ON POLICE.
FRANK z. REBARER, Clerk of Council
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spot-so diffcre:4t and 8, great a change
that one mig. we fancy oneself at the an
tipodcs; but come and see for yourself; it
skills not more talking, and so good-by
ID
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
DIVIDEND NO. 2.

OFFICE MUTUAL GAS LIGHT Co.,
SAVANNAH, GA, July 10th, 1887
A quarterly dividend of one and one-half per
centum on the capital stock of this company
has this day been declared, payable at this office
on and after August 18th, next, to stockholders
of record this day
LEWIS C. LILLE, Secretary.
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PHILIP HENsEN, Of Coruth, Miss, has proba.
bly, the longest beard of any male biped in the
world. Hensen is u man 80 years of ace. G feet
2 inche tall, and when he stands erect hig
beard touches the ground. II has not been cut
for eleven years aud is still growing. Hensrn
is a SOutherner by birth, but served the Union
cause during the war. He furnished the Fed.
eral armies with invaluable information and
won the high regard Of many prominent Union
Generals
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DIVIDEND.

OFFICE SAVANNAH GAsLIGHT COMPANY,
SAVANNAH July 18th, 1887. {
A dividend of TWO AND A HALF PER CENT.
on the Capital Stock of this company has been
declared payable on and after WEDNESDAY,
the 10th inst, to stockholders as of record this
day. A. G. GJJERARD President
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No FEWER than eighty newspaper corrcspon-
dents received invitations to the thanksgiving
services in Westminster Abbey. 1t is stated
that the luhricatons Of these gentlemen are to
be collected. arranged In a volume and pre-
5ented to the LORD Chamberlain - souvenir of
tie int""StioF uarp-tou
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The best 10 cent Undershirt in the city at
hr""l & Schauls.